Editing Spreadsheet (section)

=== Microsoft Excel for Apple Macintosh and Windows===
{{Main article|Microsoft Excel}}
[[Microsoft]] released the first version of [[Microsoft Excel|Excel]] for the [[Mac (computer)|Apple Macintosh]] on September 30, 1985, and then ported<ref>{{cite book |last1=Liebowitz |first1=Stan |last2=Margolis |first2=Stephen |year=2001 |chapter=6 |editor1-last=Ellig |editor1-first=Jerome |title=Dynamic Competition and Public Policy: Technology, Innovation, and Antitrust Issues |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ynmOndJFoeQC&q=microsoft+ported+excel+windows+1987&pg=PA171 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=171 |isbn=978-0-521-78250-0 }}</ref> it to Windows, with the first version being numbered 2.05 (to synchronize with the Macintosh version 2.2) and released in November 1987. Microsoft's Windows 3.x platforms of the early 1990s made it possible for their Excel spreadsheet application to take market share from Lotus. By the time Lotus responded with usable Windows products, Microsoft had begun to assemble their [[Microsoft Office|Office]] suite. By 1995, Excel was the market leader, edging out Lotus 1-2-3,<ref name="sshistory" /> and in 2013, IBM discontinued Lotus 1-2-3 altogether.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/goodbye-lotus-1-2-3/ |title=Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3 |last1=Vaughan-Nichols |first1=Steven J. |date=15 May 2013 |website=[[ZDNet]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |access-date=24 July 2014}}</ref>